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N518WB

Fairey Aviation Ltd FIREFLY AS-6

N518WB is a Fairey Aviation Ltd FIREFLY AS-6, a balloon with no engine, built in 1950. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Del Mar, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 3, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Fairey Aviation Ltd
Model
FIREFLY AS-6
Serial number
135129
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
5
Year built
1950
Transponder code
A6811D (octal 51500435)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 21, 2003
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · April 3, 2002
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00563934

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kurdziel Edward G JR Trustee
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box H
Del Mar, CA 92014-0139

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data